Anohni & the Johnsons - My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross - VINYL LP

My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, ANOHNI's 6th studio album, shape shifts through it's subject matter the loss of loved ones, inequality, alienation, privilege, denial, ecocide and the tidal power of Earth, isolation, Future Feminism, and the intention that we might yet transform our ways of thinking, our religious ideas, our societal structures, and our relationships with the rest of nature. On her first full album since 2016's HOPELESSNESS, she explains the creative process was painstaking, yet also inspired, joyful, and intimate, a renewal and a renaming of her response to the world as she sees it. InchA couple of these songs are almost a response to the call of [Marvin Gaye's] What's Going On, from 2023. They are a kind of an echo from the future to that album from 50 years ago.Inch ANOHNI places her heart on the line and in a groove in the opening track InchIt Must Change,Inch describing systems in collapse with a note of compassion for humanity InchThe truth is I always thought you were beautiful in your own way / That's why this is so sad. InchScapegoatInch waivers between tenderness and instrumental brutality. The primordial, Kali-esque curse InchRestInch positions the record at moments in conversation with experimental rock of the 1970s. Her voice is sensual and smoothed, selectively reaching to the edges of what it can contain. InchI don't want you to be dead, I can't accept it,Inch she cries out at the climax of InchCan't.Inch InchHow sweet the vista, the portal view / On my way to black and blue,Inch she grieves on InchSliver of Ice,Inch a remembering of some of the last words Lou Reed shared with her. A record it's creator acknowledges is inextricably both personal and political, and one that is full of heartfelt music that also questions it's own right to be heard, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross demonstrates music's unique capacity to bring